Thread by @OpenParlyZw

#Twimboz we are following live proceedings of the Sapes Trust online dialogue Forum. No 13 of 2020 dubbed #NoneButOurselves: The Third National Citizens Convention and the Way Foward for Zimbabwe. #OpenParlyZw

@BriggsBomba: ""We were saying community is the answer." #OpenParlyZw

@BriggsBomba: "What builds communities are relationships." #OpenParlyZw

@BriggsBomba: "To act in collective way to solve problems." #OpenParlyZw

@BriggsBomba: "We were trying to break the cycle of individualism and promote collective efforts to community based issues." #OpenParlyZw

@BriggsBomba: "We envisaged The Citizens Manifesto and Convention as a process to allow us to connect and build solidarity in our diversity." #OpenParlyZw

@BriggsBomba: "In 2020 we met with the theme: Reimagining the future." #OpenParlyZw

@BriggsBomba: "The framing of the third Citizen Convention was centred on what time is it." #OpenParlyZw

@BriggsBomba: "If you look at the big arcs of our history we are coming to the end of a big cycle." #OpenParlyZw

@BriggsBomba: "For this current generation we defined three national questions." #OpenParlyZw

@BriggsBomba: "The 3rd National Citizens Convention (NCC) addressed 3 key questions." #OpenParlyZw

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@BriggsBomba: The first key question is Social Cohesion." #OpenParlyZw.

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@BriggsBomba: "We have a task to heal and reweave our social fabric from a point of trust and inclusivity." #OpenParlyZw

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@BriggsBomba: "The second key question is participatory Democracy and Constitutionalism." #OpenParlyZw

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@BriggsBomba: "Creating true democracy that distributes power to the grassroots giving the community a say in decisions that matter in our daily existence as citizens as opposed to representative democracy which has become distorted." #OpenParlyZw

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@BriggsBomba: "Democracy goes beyond showing up to vote and voting based on promises printed on a glossy poster." #OpenParlyZw

@BriggsBomba: "People are voting for promises instead of a record." #OpenParlyZw

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@BriggsBomba: "If democracy is anchored at community level we can spotlight community leaders who have a record of public service." #OpenParlyZw

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@BriggsBomba: " The third key question is centered on our economy." #OpenParlyZw

@BriggsBomba: "In a resource rich country we can no longer have abject poverty. How can our national wealth serve the citizens?" #OpenParlyZw

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@BriggsBomba: "It's not acceptable that we can have this complete picture were have this mineral wealth and abject poverty at the same time." #OpenParlyZw

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@BriggsBomba: "We are really saying in this agenda lies the 50 years of our future." #OpenParlyZw

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